Kashyap, Subbash C creator text xu| 2011 continuing ng p.445-457 India has been a functioning democracy for over sixty year.The system has shown remarkable resilience and vibrance in the face of many a crisis.The democratic pocesses have by now taken strong roots. Howeve, in all times and climes democracy remains a tender plant and unless nursed with care, it tends to wither away. What seems to have become our supreme task is to find the ways to strengthen the representative institutions and prevent democratic polity from sinking further in the muck of corruption. Here is an attempt to evaluate the various legislative and other methods and remedies for tackling the menance of corruption. - Reproduced. Corruption Indian Journal of Public Administration 180718